Open-source News

Ubuntu Linux arrives on HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board  BetaNews

Review Display Systems Ltd - Android and Linux-based Smart TFT displays simplify embedded development  Design Products & Applications

Steam's most popular operating systems of 2024  Gamereactor UK

A change made to the Linux kernel in June 2023 has led to a situation where PCIe Gen5 NVMe solid state drives could potentially drop down to Gen1 speeds... Lenovo engineers spotted this issue and bisected the problem along with coming up with a solution...

Lenovo Discovers Situation Of Linux Dropping PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs To Gen 1 Speeds  Phoronix

Why are there so many different Proton versions? Proton 8, Proton 9, Experimental, GE-Proton  GamingOnLinux

The Servo open-source web browser layout engine project has published their newest monthly recap to highlight the progress they made during December 2024. They ended the year on a high note with getting dark mode support working and other features wired up -- including enough to now be able to read Discord messages but not yet enough to actually post messages on Discord...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Now Works on the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board  9to5Linux

A new initiative will fund and support open-source Chromium projects  Yahoo News Australia

Linux Foundation launches initiative to support Chromium browsers  Developer News

Hans-Kristian Arntzen with Valve has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 as this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan implementation...

I Was Never More Excited to Work and Play on This 3.4″ Display  How-To Geek

Mecha Comet looks like a fun little modular Linux handheld  GamingOnLinux

Google and Linux Foundation launch initiative to support Chromium  Mezha.Media

Ubuntu developers are looking at extending their policy of not releasing stable release updates (SRUs) around the weekend as well as not phasing them up to 100% during those weekend times either...

Ubuntu Considers Taking It Easier On Software Updates Over Weekends  Phoronix

Linux Foundation brings together top browser makers for more "open" approach  TechRadar

System76's COSMIC Alpha 5 is here with a new media player, VRR improvements and lots of fixes  GamingOnLinux

The Intel Haswell CPUs were originally introduced back in 2013 and great for the time. Under Microsoft Windows the driver support has long been obsolete but under Linux with Intel's open-source driver support there is still even the occasional fix all these years later. Coming up for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle in 2025 is a fix to benefit Haswell and similarly aged Intel platforms with integrated graphics...

12 Years After Haswell, Intel Open-Source Graphics Developers Still Make Occasional Fix  Phoronix